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Kiwi Farms—an online forum best known for harboring stalkers, white supremacists, and overall being one of the worst cesspits the internet has to offer—was knocked offline temporarily on Tuesday in what the site’s operators called a paid-for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. The alleged attack comes after…Read more...

Superlight notebooks are becoming a growing trend among laptop makers with systems like the LG Gram, the Samsung Galaxy Book Pro, and others, and now HP is trying its hand at making its own ultra portable with the new Pavilion Aero.Read more...

A large collaboration of astrophysicists report they have made the first-ever confirmed detections of shockwaves produced by mergers between neutron stars and black holes. The detections, 10 days apart, represent two of these enormous cosmic unions.Read more...

As long as science fiction’s been around, and probably longer, the fear of technology has fueled the stories that keep us up at night. One of the scariest scenarios? That a smart home, ostensibly designed to make life easier, would suddenly transform into a nightmarish high-tech prison—or at least a place you would…Read more...

Amazon workers have faced no shortage of health hazards in the company’s warehouses. While we’ve focused on injuries, inadequate restroom access, covid-19 safeguards, and psychological torment, extreme heat could become the next imminent threat in the face of climate change.Read more...

Instagram is finally testing the ability for those of us without millions of followers to link people to outside content from Stories. The linking feature will be slightly different from the swipe-up methodology you currently see on your favorite influencer’s stories. Instead, it’s a sticker, so your pals can tap to…Read more...

Godzilla Singular Point has stomped its way onto Netflix with all the fury of a thousand nuclear breath attacks, paving the way for an adventure of titanic proportions. But did that adventure live up to our Jet Jaguar-filled expectations, or was the King of the Monsters about ready to abdicate? Here’s what we loved,…Read more...

The X-Men have never been especially shy about swapping and combining DNA with one another, but post-“House of X”, the idea of mutants procreating has taken on a different significance that’s being explored in Way of X from writer Si Spurrier, artists Bob Quinn and Java Tartaglia, and letterer Clayton Cowles.Read more...

Twelve pygmy hogs (Porcu salvania) were released back into northeast India last week as part of a conservation program made to resurrect the species from near-extinction in the 1960s. The pigs remain extremely rare in the wild, with an estimated 250 persevering out there.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson has never been one to shy away from making claims with absolutely zero basis in reality. He’s also never been one to turn down a good opportunity to play the victim. So it’s not really very surprising that he’s claiming the National Security Agency has placed him under surveillance.

A new report from Brown University’s Climate and Development Lab deconstructs the messaging from one of the most aggressive climate denier organizations in the U.S.Read more...

A large shark, possibly a great white or a tiger, fatally attacked a young man. The man’s wounds were extensive, including the loss of a leg, a hand, and both feet. Thanks to those at the time who recovered his body and the way in which they buried him, his bones survived 3,000 years to tell us a horrific story of the…Read more...

As my creative writing teacher would say: “Well, you’ve made choices.” After sharing a brief teaser earlier in June, Netflix has released the first full-length trailer for Blood Red Sky, a thriller about hijackers (led by DC’s Legends of Tomorrow’s Dominic Purcell) taking over a plane—only, surprise, one of the…Read more...

Senator Ron Wyden has released a list of hundreds of secretive, foreign-owned companies that are buying up Americans’ data. Some of the customers include companies based in states that are ostensibly “unfriendly” to the U.S., like Russia and China.Read more...

Insulin is expensive. Really expensive. Like hundreds-of-dollars per vial expensive. Expensive enough that some diabetes patients can’t afford their monthly dose. And now Walmart, of all companies, is stepping in to make the drug a bit more affordable.Read more...

Between TPMs, CPUs, and UEFIs, the system requirements for upgrading to Windows 11 haven’t been the easiest to figure out. Microsoft changed them only hours after pushing out the first Insider Preview Build for early adopters. If you’re wondering exactly what you’ll need to run Windows 11, we’re here to make some…Read more...

On the surface, Cate Shortland’s Black Widow may feel like an inconsequential piece of the Marvel puzzle. Since it’s set between the events in Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War, it’s easy to wonder why the studio went backward instead of forward. There’s a delicate balance there, to be sure, but…Read more...

A large asteroid wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs 66 million years ago, but these formidable animals were already in decline by that point, in a process that started 10 million years earlier, according to new research. Paleontologists have made similar claims before, but the new study presents a compelling case,…Read more...

Just because a camera has a bunch of fancy new-age tech doesn’t mean it has to look that way, so today Nikon is announcing its latest retro-inspired mirrorless camera in the $960 Z FC.Read more...

The skull of a hunter-gatherer who lived in Europe over 5,000 years ago contains the oldest known traces of the bacteria responsible for causing the plague, according to a new study. The discovery is likely to yield some important clues as to the origins and evolution of this long-time germ foe, which has been…Read more...

If you thought cryptocurrency shenanigans ended with Dogecoin and NFTs, you should probably sit down for this one. Sam Altman, the former CEO of famed startup incubator Y Combinator, is reportedly working on a new cryptocurrency that’ll be distributed to everyone on Earth. Once you agree to scan your eyeballs.Read more...

Air temperatures during record-setting heat wave in the Pacific Northwest were bad enough. But the ground was on a whole other level.Read more...

The titular dog in Clifford the Big Red Dog looks cute, I’ll give you that. The digital effects, at times, seem pretty impressive. But I don’t want to see a giant dog endangering the lives of everyone around him—or attempting to eat someone else’s pet.Read more...

A team of astronomers discovered a supernova they believe was formed after the star’s electrons were consumed by other elements in its core. That would make the supernova an electron-capture supernova, a theorized type of stellar explosion first proposed 40 years ago. This may not be the first of these rare explosions…Read more...

When the heat started building in the Pacific Northwest over the weekend, LeeAnn Floyd started having nightmares about people dying. Frustrated by what she said was a lack of any visible, detailed government or official suggestions for how to stay safe in a hot home, Floyd posted a thread of dozens of heat-beating…Read more...

Though the first season of Amazon’s adaptation of Good Omens covered all of the beats from Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s original novel and then some, there were so many interesting details about the series’ world that were begging for more exploration, like Aziraphale and Crowley’s millenia-spanning friendship.…Read more...

The Rock’s got his eyes set on Santa Claus for a new project. The Dexter continuation is somehow picking up a very familiar face. Korean webtoon Deep is coming to TV. Plus, Rick & Morty takes on a Captain Planet riff, and what’s next on Tuca & Bertie. To me, my spoilers!

United Airlines has ordered 270 new airplanes from Boeing and Airbus, the largest order by a single airline in a decade, according to a statement from United early Tuesday. The order includes 70 Airbus A321neo aircraft and 200 new Boeing 737 Max airplanes, the type of plane that saw two crashes in 2018 and 2019 that…Read more...

Japanese telecom giant SoftBank halted production of Pepper the robot in August of 2020, according to a new report from Reuters. And it seems unlikely that new ones will ever roll off the manufacturing line.Read more...

The most recent version of Snapchat has been plagued by a bug that forced it to crash upon launching, but no longer! An update has been made available in the App Store to correct the issue, which was seemingly only affecting the iOS version of the app (Android users don’t see to have experienced the same issue).Read more...

The biggest moment of Loki episode three happened in an instant. The God of Mischief (Tom Hiddleston) was talking to his newly discovered Loki counterpart Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) about their lives, and Loki confirmed he’s been romantically involved with both men and women. The moment made him the first canonically…Read more...

For decades, the infamous Firespray-31 of Boba Fett—and his father before him, Jango—has been known as the Slave 1. But as Boba himself is thrust back into the Star Wars spotlight, that name might not be coming with him, thanks to a policy that’s recently been made rather prominent itself.

With a nod to recent revelations about the Trump Justice Department seeking to unmask sources behind news reports critical of the former president, Senator Ron Wyden on Monday introduced a new bill aimed at protecting news organizations from politicized surveillance.

The heat wave centered on the Pacific Northwest has felled records across the region on both sides of the border. But those records barely lasted 24 hours in some cases. Even before the hottest part of the day, the mercury once again reached heights never before seen in the region more known for drizzle than sizzle.

A federal judge on Monday dismissed an antitrust complaint brought by the Federal Trade Commission against Facebook, claiming that the evidence presented by the agency had not sufficiently proven that the social media giant held monopoly power over other social media platforms.Read more...

Original content living exclusively on streaming services means it’s never really done. Decades ago, when a Stormtrooper hit his head on the set of Star Wars, the gaffe became a part of film history. But when a crew member was similarly spotted on the set of Disney+’s The Mandalorian, Disney quietly got rid of him,…Read more...

Shortly before E3, Microsoft announced plans to expand xCloud game streaming to browsers, and today that update went live, finally unlocking the ability to stream games on iPhones and iPads using Safari.Read more...

The arrival of the Delta variant—the recently emerged strain of the coronavirus thought to be the most transmissible yet—in the U.S. is understandably unnerving scientists and the public alike. But how worried should you exactly be about Delta, especially if you’re fully vaccinated already?Read more...

YouTube has rolled back a permanent suspension of Right Wing Watch (RWW), a nonprofit that tracks extremist individuals and groups, apparently backtracking from its stance that documenting those extremists’ actions is the same as promoting them.

Major phone companies and other voice providers have only a matter of days to implement a new caller ID verification system designed to rid Americans of that dreaded auditory plague, the robocall.

Old crumbling stone buildings. Spidery webs of light. Bright faces that morph between animal and human and back again. All imagery you might see if you’re in the middle of a mushroom trip, but also what you might see if you check out the “Ganzflicker”—an intense, red and black flickering screen that anyone can access…Read more...

In Loki’s third episode, “Lamentis”, the prodigal Asgardian trickster and his new interdimensional travel companion accidentally wound up smack dab in the middle of an apocalypse from which there was only one clear route of escape. As luck would have it, neither of Loki’s heroes were exactly prepared to partake in…Read more...

Logan’s Run may have been a box office disappointment when it first came out, but that hasn’t stopped Warner Bros. from trying and failing to restart the race. It’s now been 21 years since reports of a remake surfaced, and still with nothing to show for it. Here’s the long and convoluted history behind trying to make…Read more...

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has released new footage of the ongoing Tianwen-1 mission, which includes sounds of the rover in action.

Jaws is the original “stay the hell out of the water” summer flick, but you really can’t count the Piranha series out in terms of cautionary tales about never going swimming again. Piranhas may be much smaller than great whites, but they’re fast, they travel in packs, they have tremendous teeth, and they love …Read more...

YouTube TV has announced its long-awaited 4K Plus streaming option is now available as an add-on to existing subscriptions. The new tier adds streaming 4K content where it’s available, plus offline downloads and unlimited simultaneous streams on your home network.

Law enforcement doesn’t have much trouble getting access to data from social media companies. In fact, over the first half of last year, authorities in the US made close to 118,000 requests for user information from tech companies—a number that’s more than twice the number of requests thrown at these companies since…Read more...

Power cables are melting. School districts are closing. Asphalt is too hot to touch. The heat wave roasting the Pacific Northwest is putting infrastructure at risk, and temperatures are expected to continue to rise on Monday. The failures show the staggering toll the climate crisis is already taking—and they’re a…Read more...

Researchers in Canada have created an easily accessible tool for people worried about the possibility of cognitive decline as they grow older. The online calculator is supposed to estimate the general risk of dementia for the average person 55 and older and is based on research published this month.

The head of the “Cyber Ninjas,” the group commissioned to carry out an ultra-partisan, comically inept “audit” of 2020 votes in Maricopa County, Arizona, is also starring in a documentary claiming the CIA helped rig the elections for Joe Biden, according to Arizona reporters who attended a screening.Read more...